[Users] Lun snapshots by a san

Shu Ming shuming at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Apr 17 22:50:47 EDT 2013


pierre Labanowski:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a question, or more precisely information or best practice.
>
> I use oVirt 3.1 with an attachment on fiber channel on my SAN. Makes it
> even the San snapshots that are replicated on a remote site.
>
> it's a procedure for adding a new "Storage" Domain to another Data
> Centers (oVirt) in order to recover the state of a VM snapshoted by the SAN?

If I understand correctly, the remote SAN of you can snapshot the 
storage domain(physical lun in the SAN) lively. And you hope to recover 
the storage domain with the previous snapshot stored in the SAN.
So you create a new "storage" domain for another data center and restart 
the VM from the newstorage domain. I am not sure if the VM disks in the 
storage domain snapshot is in consistent date if the SAN snapshot the VM 
in a running state. I think the VM OS should be notified and make sure 
it is in consistent state before the SAN can do the snapshot, also the 
VM OS should be notified with the finish of the snapshotting..
>
> I've read the documentation on Disaster Recovery but it's for the
> site-to-site failover (i don't have dual architecture of ovirt) while my
> demand here is for the state recovered a current domain. And only to
> export the VM(snapshoted by a san) for restore in the current storage
> (production).
>
> thank you
> Pierre
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